Scientists Claim to Have Discover What Existed BEFORE the Beginning of the Universe

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There
are many scientific and non-scientific varieties of the answer about what came
before Big Bang. Some say there was literally nothing and some say a black hole
or a multiverse. But now a group of mathematicians from Canada and Egypt have
analyzed some cutting edge scientific theory and a complex set of equations to
find what preceded the universe in which we live. Their research paper has been
published in Nature.

To
explain it in simple and easily understandable terms; they applied the theories
of the very small i.e. the world of quantum mechanics, to the entire universe -
explained by general theory of
relativity, and discovered the universe essentially goes through four different
phases.

More
importantly they discovered what came before this universe was.. Another
universe or more accurately another ‘cosmological phase’. Despite
being infinite in size our universe is cyclical and has always existed in one
of four stages.

The
universe is expanding, and the expansion is speeding up, but the team believes
that certain modification motivated by quantum mechanics will ultimately halt
the expansion and pull the whole lot back to a near infinite point – at which
stage the universe will start expanding again.

According
to him they have incorporated quantum mechanical effects in cosmology using an
approach called the modified GUP.

This
approach changes the equation for cosmology in a very interesting way. It
predicts four distinct phases for our universe - the present phase of the
universe being just one of those phases.

There
is a phase before the big bang in this cosmological model, and it is possible
to know about that phase of the universe by studying the physics of present
phase of our universe.

Professor
Mir Faizal said:

In our cosmological model the universe did not
start with the big bang, but there was a phase transition from one phase of the
universe to another. This is possible becausethe universe canexist in four different phases,like ordinary water can exist in three
different phases. Just as we can know about the properties of ice, by studying
water which has formed from it, we can know about pre big bang cosmology by
studying the physics of this universe.

In
their model they have been able to study the pre Big Bang state of the
universe. The equations in their model predict that the expansion of the
universe will come to a halt and then will immediately be followed by a
contracting phase.

Prof
Mir added:

When the equations are extrapolated beyond the
maximum rate of contraction, a cyclic universe scenario emerges. “Other
cosmologists have suggested a big bang and big crunch scenario – but those
model have singularities. Singularities are bad in physics as they indicate a
place where the laws of physics breakdown, and at such places one cannot use
physics to get meaningful results.This new cosmological model
does away with such singularity.
The big bang singularity can therefore also be avoided by using the modified
GUP-corrections to the cosmology.

In
their cosmology model, the cyclic nature of the universe occurs as a result of
incorporating quantum effects into a cosmological model of the universe.

Prof
Faizal explained that even though there are many different mind-bending
approaches to quantum gravity, like string theory and loop quantum gravity,
what most of these different approaches have in common is that there is a
minimum length below which space does not exist. Many
of these approaches also predict that there is
also a maximum energy and no
object in the universe can have an energy beyond that maximum energy.

They
research team incorporated the effect of having a minimum length and an maximum
energy into a cosmological model, and
then they ended up with a cyclic
universe.

Asked
about the philosophical and even possible theological implications of his work
Prof. Mir said:

No one draws any philosophical or theological implications of a finite or
an infinite spatial dimension, and time
is just another dimension, so why should it be treated any differently. In any case, I do not believe in a God of
gaps, with big bang being a big gap, but in a God who made the mathematics
describing reality so perfect that there are no gaps, not now and not at big
bang.